Quotes About Reciprocity

It's all about the energy of exchange.

You owe me and you know what I want in return." He scowled at me. "Not the pants." I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: "To take is more blessed than to give"; "buy cheap and sell dear"; "one soiled hand washes the other.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

if I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Na sociedade, cada qual deve dar e receber. Se esse homem não dá muita coisa, é, sem dúvida, porque não recebeu o bastante.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

The greatest hope, I say, is the one in which all the others are met, is that it is exists for everyone and that for everyone it lasts. That the absolute gift of one being to another, which can exist only in reciprocity, be in the eyes of everyone the only natural and supernatural hanging bridge cast across life itself.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

For me, representing India, as much as I can give, I need reciprocal things to be given to me. If I am willing to offer tariff concessions on goods, I want something to be offered by them to boost India's services.

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.